Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
Bridges Across
Eras
Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Serena Williams
reaches
Debra Darrell
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 13 meetings76March 19, 1998 — March 18, 2002View Serena Williams × Martina Hingis →02 BridgeOpen career →Martina Hingis
3 meetings30August 14, 1995 — August 25, 1997View Martina Hingis × Florencia Labat →03 BridgeOpen career →Florencia Labat
1 meeting10April 28, 2000View Florencia Labat × Yoannis Montesino →04 BridgeOpen career →Yoannis Montesino
1 meeting10May 12, 1997View Yoannis Montesino × Debra Darrell →05 DestinationOpen career →Debra Darrell
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMartina Hingis
- BridgeJoelle Schad
- BridgeYoannis Montesino
- DestinationDebra Darrell
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgePaula Cabezas
- BridgeElena Juricich
- DestinationDebra Darrell
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeMirjana Lucic
- BridgePaula Cabezas
- BridgeYoannis Montesino
- DestinationDebra Darrell
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeJustine Henin
- BridgeFlorencia Labat
- BridgeYoannis Montesino
- DestinationDebra Darrell
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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